#103

They’ll abstain won’t they?

The most centrist thing

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#104

So if I understand it right, as the people’s voters have been telling me for months…

Corbyn has finally done something, so this now means there’s a referendum and remain will win. When is it? Before march 29th? Must be.

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#105

Next Wednesday it is, just had my polling card through. That’s if Leave don’t just throw the towel in beforehand, knowing the absolute landslide that Remain will get.

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#106

I heard that now Corbyn’s on the referendum train May’s making it a vote between Remain and Not Brexit.

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#107

What was the turnout in the first referendum? 72.Something % of registered voters. Do loads of people need to register to vote now if they hadn’t already?

#108

they have another cheeky nandos on the day

#109

At the risk of flipflopping I think this is exactly the kind of Twitter posting that should be avoided from politics threads. I mean it’s hard to know for certain it’s a parody but either way it’s really the lowest level of satire and doesn’t serve the discussion to have it here.

Better in the great things in social media thread or something

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#111

I’m away to bed.

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#113

Yeah raw bullshit. Although I don’t know how much TIG existing has enabled this. I guess the point is that TIG allows Labour to push this now (allowing it was always a promise it might happen) but now there’s a fall group to take the “traitors” heat so in a way, tactical success?

#114

really? i know the news per se is ridiculous atm but on my tl a kind of embarrassed hush has descended. the usual fubpees burbling here and there but the big dicks seem to have shriveled up for the time being. just had a gander and freedland, ancona, etc, all just retweeting stuff entirely unrelated to the big story (that’s how you know they’re fuming). cohen is trying to paint this as kremlinology or something but that’s about it.

#115

don’t have a pop, i’m using this to support a point

i see what you mean in a way tho. literally 6 hours ago they were still telling us corbyn was the all powerful dictator of a stalinist party that was coming for our wine cellars and now they’re saying this. i can’t think of a single prominent corbyn supporter who was drawn to the project because he was offering authoritarian communism ffs.

#116

Dont do yourself down ghosty :wink:

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#117

Hate to rain on everyone’s parade but there’s more likelihood of me scoring the winning goal in the World Cup final than a second referendum happening.

Realistically the likelihood is that a ‘no deal’ will, at last, due to increasing pressure on May to do so, be taken off the table, an extension to negotiations will be enacted and May’s deal will be tweaked enough to be voted through the house.

Said from the very start that a fudged deal will be voted through and I stick by that.

#118

You’ve definitely been consistent on this, cos I feel like I get irked every time you post this disbelieving pessimistic rubbish*. [massive safetywink]

The second referendum will happen on March 28th, Brexit will be cancelled, the absolute boy will be swept into Downing street, and everyone will be happy until the oceans flood all the major world cities and all the birds die.

That’s my best-case scenario, anyway.

*by which I mean you’re probably right and I basically agree with you, but there’s no way I’d ever want to admit it

#119

i know we promised not to talk about her anymore and i won’t post a link, but i noticed Weetman after her whole ‘i’m being bullied for liking a transphobic tweet’ thing last night, posted an “I’m going to take a bit of a twitter break, but I’m going to come on and post one positive thing a day to make twitter a better place” tweet today, only for Corbyn’s second ref announcement to come out and her to go right back to normal.

gonna mute her now to try and stop my hate-gawping.

#121

I can’t shake the feeling (and it is just a feeling) that Remain wouldn’t win a second referendum. I think we liberal metropolitan elite are a bit insulated from how many fucking rabidly pro-Leave people there are out there. It’s the “but I don’t know many Tories” shock that follows every general election result, but channeled into hating THOSE BLOODY EU-ROCRATS.

Ridiculous country.

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#122

I missed the whole wheatman thing. Got some good #numbers replying to her when a friend shared a tweet she made

#123

She literally posted she’s leaving Twitter 24 hours ago and has been tweeting ever since. I don’t know why people do that on Twitter/DiS

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#124

Depends what the question is. If it’s May’s deal versus remain, remain wins. If it’s no deal versus remain, it’d be a lot closer, because this country. Anyone who would allow no deal onto a ballot paper is straight up wrong.

#126

She also posted a “this is what Corbynistas think centrists look like vs what they do” thing with the first being a picture from a riot and the second being the Cheeky Nandos shot.

And it’s like… no, a staged shot in a restaurant picked by a consultant to look “relatable”, while at least 20% of the group look baseline uncomfortable to be there is the first line of that joke. That’s exactly what we think centrists look like ffs

Must. Stop. Talking. About her.